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215 ILCS 5/199 (2026)

Removal of proceedings to Sangamon or Cook county

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(215 ILCS 5/199) (from Ch. 73, par. 811)
    Sec. 199. Removal of proceedings to Sangamon or Cook county.
    In the event an order is entered directing liquidation, rehabilitation or conservation, the Director may remove the property and assets of the company to the county of Sangamon or to the county of Cook. In the event of such removal or contemplated removal the court shall upon proper petition showing the necessity therefor, filed by the Director, order the clerk of the court wherein such proceeding was commenced to make a full transcript of the petition for removal and the order thereon and to transmit the same together with all papers theretofore filed in the cause, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of Sangamon or to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of Cook, as the case may be, and the proceeding shall thereafter be conducted in the same manner as if it had been commenced in the county to which the cause is transferred.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3563.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2018–2018 · leading case: Hammer v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., 905 F.3d 517 (7th Cir. 2018).
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Hammer v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., 905 F.3d 517 (7th Cir. 2018). · cites it 2× “As part of the liquidation, the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County-one of two Illinois courts empowered to oversee insurance rehabilitation and liquidation, see 215 ILCS 5/199 -entered an order naming the Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance as…”
Dowling v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs., 325 F. Supp. 3d 884 (E.D. Ill. 2018). “And HHS does not argue with any force that its claims and defenses cannot be heard in the liquidation proceeding; there is no reason for the Court to believe that HHS cannot effectively raise its legal arguments before the Chancery Court.”
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